There needs to be a tax on the distance travelled on the roads, which could be charged at time of registration; This could be verified by the servicing mechanic, and listed on the registration papers.

Well over half the cost of fuel is tax & GST. The average motorist is paying over $1500 a year in fuel tax. Add to that the $750 to $1000 it now coats to register a car Josephus, & you would have most needing to find $2500 to register their car.

How many families struggle just finding enough to pay the rego let alone all the "fuel/road tax" together at one time? At least the fuel tax is extracted reasonably painlessly in small amounts at the bowser.

Pushing electric cars to suit a global warming fraud is stupid, & will cause many more unexpected consequences than just a funding problem. It is another fool direction by government. Do you know of any instance where government picked a winner that wasn't the cause of more problems than it cured.

Joephus, that is easily defeated with todays computer based dashboard
display. The sensor that records distance can be connected to a pulse
generator and you set it at a pulse rate that equals say, 10000 km a
minute until it exceeds max display, say 999999 km and then continues
to a count just a few thousand km above your last rego check.
How long before the pub mechanic will do it for you for a few beers !
That is why they have not already adopted your suggestion.
It only captures the honest people.

Hey Hasbeen,
Don't forget to add the cost of road tolls;
If you have to use a toll road to go to and from work;
- Then the full cost including tolls might be double that of rego, fuel excise and gst alone.

Also there's stamp-duty every time a car is purchased or changes ownership;
- And that's another little ponzi scheme.

Who gives a toss. Most of us here will never own an electric car.

NSW is constantly changing road rules and may lead in the often called for pay by the mile system
A locked devise measuring how far we travel could do that job
If we saw every cent gained in fuel taxes and road fines spent on roads we would have four lane divided bush tracks
But the money go to run much more
NSW has informed us [not before time] it will have hidden cameras looking for mobile phone use by Christmas 5 points off license, double if in holiday times
Trial found over a hundred thousand could have been fined